Bombay Bicycle Club - A different Kind of Fix

Not so angry this morning - in fact had a near religious experience in the car listening to the New Bombay Bicycle Club album "A Different Kind of Fix"  on the way to work

You need to listen to this by yourself, in a quiet place, on a good stereo, with the volume turned up a bit.

Absolutely Stunning soundscapes.  The single, Shuffle is a good starting point if you aren't sure... I have listened to the whole album twice and fallen in love with nearly all of it.  Usually takes me five or six listens before I really like a whole album, but this just hangs together so well.

I am advising BUY on the Bombay Bicycle Club... BUY BUY BUY!!!

FIlm Review: Kill List

Ok, warning, this review contains a REALLY big f*ckig spoiler.... in that I tell you how it ends, as much as I can understand how it ends, as unlikely as this ending may seem...

It's about a guy, his wife, his buddy and his buddy's girlfriend (who I found a little bit tasty... why are buddy's girlfriends always... ok forget that).

The guys were in the military, some sort of operation in Kiev?  I guess.

Dinner party, they all get drunk, things become combative - hmmm that never happens.

They get a job from some sort of MI5 sort of person or something that involves killing a bunch of people on a list.  Ok, first one seems to be a Priest, maybe interfered with some boys or something, next seems to be pornographer, the hammer comes out it's not pretty.

I guess there might have been another one or two on the list, maybe maybe not, I don't know it was pretty much all the same. 

They want to quit the job, they tell the MI5 guy, he says no... blah blah blah.. they have to kill an MP (member of parliament) ... they go out to the woods to do this... MPs live in woods... ok now it gets weird, the cult people come out, women naked of course, men not, inbetweeners wear wicker... are we headed for the wicker man?  maybe.

The guys watch, the culty type people hang a woman, the guys start shooting, the cult people follow them into a cave, they kill the main guys friend, the main guy.. his name might be Stan, gets away back home, the cult people follow him.  He keeps shooting them, they knock him out, the wife starts shooting them... it all goes black, not that you could see much before then anyway.  Back to cult people, the Hunchback this scene is called, Stan has a knife fight with a hunchback in a sheet.... Oh, he kills it, Oh! it's actually his wife with their child on her back...hmmm, didn't see that coming...

End of movie.

82% of critics liked this movie... well, that just goes to prove what I have always thought about critics.

I never saw Blare Witch Project, but I can't imagine that it was worse than this... 

There is so much wrong with this movie - and they are hyping it like the end is a real big deal.  It's not, it's a bunch of gratuitous violence, not that I mind that sort of thing - but it's just poorly put together, the sound volumes are crap in that you can't hear half of it - not the cinemas fault, and it just makes no sense whatsoever ... to me anyway, I just don't see the point.

The total incompetence of O2

So it all came to a head yesterday. After three weeks of not being able to use the 3G on my IPad, I switched providers from O2 to Orange.

The total and complete inability of O2 to help me on this was deplorable.

3 weeks ago, the debit card that I used to set up me O2 account got cloned so bank cancelled and gave me a new one. So O2 can't take money off card. Fair enough, I call them to try and put it right.. The only way is for me to log into my account. No can do. Doesn't like my password, call them back. Email address is correct, do "forgot password" - tells me they have no record of my email - but (probably pimply) phone support pe-on says that they do have my email address. Pimply Phone Support PPS discovers I haven't got my mac to hand and then assures me that when I next sync with iTunes all will be well. PPS will call me on my mobile to make sure all is well - bullshit.

3 days later finally get chance to sync with mac . No discernible change, back on phone to another PPS, so many of them. He knows what the problem is... But mysteriously won't tell me...but at 4pm tells me he has fixed it but I need to wait about 4 hours, try it again, and then it will work - oldest trick in the PPS book, stall them until the help line closes.

Off to France for Paris Brest Paris. Get SFR SIM, works perfectly in IPad.
Want to stay in France where iPad works on 3G!

Back a week later to the battle on the home front. Go thru scripts with PPS again, restore my iPad lose all my lovely home page setup setup, boohoo, still doest work.

Go to O2 shop. They give me a new SIM, ok that must be going to fix it, go home put SIM in - O2 popup message tells me device is not registered, sync with iTunes, not registered, restore, not registered, call number on popup - diverted from dept to dept, the message actually says to call the number and give them the device ID which is about 16 digits - no one ever even asks for this number - PPS uses own brain now instead of support script. If it's not the SIM, then it must be the iPad. Ok cos I have already made an appointment at the genius bar... Take it to apple, this is the third one he has seen this week... Nothing wrong with iPad, well, I knew that too. What to do? London- big city - many stores - go back to O2 shop, tell them to fix it NOW! Specialist not available till Monday - YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU CAN KEEP YOUR F*CKING SIM

Go next door to Orange shop, very nice guy promises that for the same price as O2 he will have my iPad working on 3G, same contract - which isn't really a contract as I can get out any time for nothing after 30 days - in 20 minutes. And he does, and I am now a happy Orange customer and get
2 for 1 cinema tickets on Wednesdays to boot!

People, rise up, stand on your hind legs and vote with your feet. O2 is the first and there will be more to come cos we are fighting back, and we are f*cking angry, and we ain't gonna take it no more!!!


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